The Top Fishing
Chapter 235 - 154: Fishing for the Giant Green

Chapter 235: Chapter 154: Fishing for the Giant Green

Watching the dark float, Lin Yang forcefully suppressed the urge to immediately lift the rod, counting to three silently in his heart.

After counting the three numbers, he then lifted the rod to hook the fish.

Upon hooking the fish, the first sensation he felt was its heaviness; it was as if he hadn’t hooked a fish at all but snagged the bottom or caught some underwater debris—the rod gave no responsive feel when lifted.

Lin Yang knew he had hooked a true big fish.

"This is definitely a big fish; lifting the rod is like hitting a stake, it just won’t budge," he said, glancing at his phone.

The live streaming audience also began to hold their breath, tense as if their own actions through the screen could affect his ability to play the fish.

After a stalemate of about 5 seconds, with no sign of the fish starting to swim, Lin Yang said, "This big fish is a bit cunning, watch how I deal with it. We’ve discussed the problem of big fish hitting a stake during live streams before. Let’s review what to do in this situation today.

First and foremost, check if the Losing Hand Rope is attached to the fishing rod. When fighting big fish with the rod in hand, the Losing Hand Rope is the last line of defense. While the big fish has yet to exert its full strength, it’s a good opportunity to calm your nerves. If the Losing Hand Rope isn’t attached, attach it first.

Once the Losing Hand Rope is secured, next is to look around the fishing spot to survey the surroundings. If you’re fishing with several rods at the same time, it’s best to retract the other rods to clear the area, as well as any debris at your feet, to leave enough space for controlling the fish. With all these preparations done, we can now move on to the main issue at hand—to deal with hitting a stake, the first trick is to slap the rod handle!"

As Lin Yang spoke, he demonstrated on-site, his right hand firmly grasping the fishing rod while his left hand rhythmically slapped the position of the rod handle, pausing after more than ten consecutive slaps for a few seconds before repeating the previous actions.

However, the fish today seemed not to take this too kindly. Despite Lin Yang slapping the rod dozens of times, there was still no sign of movement from below.

Seeing this, Lin Yang continued, "If slapping the rod handle doesn’t work, then we move on to the second trick, which is quite effective but carries a slightly higher risk of the fish coming off the hook. I call it the shaking rod method, because it significantly stimulates the fish’s flight instincts—so think carefully before using it."

Having said that, he gripped the fishing rod with both hands and began to shake it back and forth. The fishing line and the curved rod made a whirring sound under tension, and soon the fish below started to react.

"It’s moving, the fish is starting to exert force below," Lin Yang alerted, immediately bending down into a squat, bending the rod upwards.

The shaking rod method greatly stimulated the fish, with the alternating forces of the swinging action creating a sensation at the fish’s mouth where the hook was set. The fish quickly started to swim to one side, attempting to escape.

The rod in Lin Yang’s hands was gradually pulled down from an angle of seventy or eighty degrees.

degrees, 50 degrees, 40 degrees, watching as it was about to flatten out and lose the elasticity of the rod to dissipate the force, he swiftly inserted the rod into the water and didn’t lift it again for quite some time.

Inserting the rod into the water, a movement which had remarkable effects when used correctly, increases resistance as the rod is underwater, and can instantly change the direction of the rod’s force, leading the fish escaping forward to turn to the side. Under most circumstances, the fish would turn back.

As long as the fish turned back, the risk of a flat rod tug-of-war was mostly averted.

After a standoff of four or five seconds, Lin Yang sensed a change in the direction of the force exerted by the escaping fish and slowly began to lift the rod out of the water and stand it upright again.

"Phew, it’s turning back,"

He had just let out a sigh of relief, not even having caught his breath when the fish below exerted force for a second time.

"Oh no,"

Caught off guard, Lin Yang didn’t hesitate to plunge the rod back into the water.

During the subsequent fish playing process, over the course of 5 minutes, the big fish below surged forward and tried to escape four or five times, all of which he decisively resolved by inserting the rod into the water.

The audience in the live stream was thoroughly entertained as they watched the rod being pulled taut and buzzing from beginning to end.

"Wow, it’s exerting force again, again, and again; how big can this fish be?"

"I have to say, the host’s fish-playing technique is incredibly slick."

"This fish seems to be much bigger than the ones before. Look at the way it’s exerting force—not in violent bursts but very steadily. I’ve encountered a situation like this once before at a reservoir, where I played the fish for over half an hour, and in the end, it snapped the line and got away."

Lin Yang glanced at the public chat and nodded in agreement, "This fish is indeed very large, and I can’t yet determine just how big, but it should be at least seventy to eighty pounds. I’m going to play the fish cautiously and try to land it securely."

At this point, he still did not know that the time he would spend wrestling with this fish would far exceed his longest expectations.

minutes.

minutes.

Half an hour.

Time kept passing, but the endurance of the big fish below seemed inexhaustible. Lin Yang, with both hands around the rod, had switched from holding it to using the Chinese-style rod embrace to control the rod using the force of his arms, allowing his forearms to rest a bit.

Even so, due to the high-intensity muscle tension, he was already extremely tired.

At this moment, beads of sweat formed on his forehead, his shirt was soaked through on the back, and the high-intensity struggle had caused his arms, waist, abdomen, and thighs to start aching unbearably.

However tired, Lin Yang could not let go, so he clenched his teeth and persisted in the fight against the fish.

Every slight change in the direction of the force, he would adjust as much as possible, fully demonstrating both technique and will to their fullest extent.

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